Cemetery
Sentelle Family Cemetery
Big Willow Creek
Jeter Mountain
Henderson County NC
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Military
Record
Luke Osteen Pension Papers
1 Oct 1863 |
Enlisted |
| 16 Aug 1865 |
Discharged at Knoxville TN |
| 2 Sep 1890 |
Began receiving $12/month pension payment |
| 22 Feb 1892 |
Pension papers with claimant testimony indicating he contracted heart
disease and deafness in one (left) ear on or about January 1864 |
source: Civil War Soldiers And
Sailors System
www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html
|
Luke Osteen
Regiment Name: 2nd North Carolina Mounted Infantry
Side: Union
Company: B, F
Soldier's Rank In: Private
Soldier's Rank Out: Corporal |
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Commanders
source: The Last Battle of
the Civil War East of the Mississippi
ralphinla.rootsweb.com.cwnclast.htm
Colonel William C. Bartlett
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2nd North
Carolina Mounted Infantry
source: Civil War Soldiers And Sailors System
www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html
source: The Civil War - Union Regimental Histories -
History - North Carolina Troops
www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unnctr.htm
Oct 1863 |
Organized at Knoxville TN |
16 Oct 1863 |
Ordered to Greeneville TN |
| Nov 1863 |
On duty at Greeneville TN |
| 6 Nov 1863 |
Moved to Bull's Gap TN |
| Dec 1863 |
On duty at Bull's Gap TN |
| 2 Dec 1863 |
In action at Walker's Ford TN |
| 22 Feb 1864 |
In action at Gibson's and Wyerman's MS |
| 23-27 Jan 1865 |
Scouted Cumberland Gap |
21 Mar to
25 Apr 1865 |
Expedition from eastern Tennessee into western North Carolina |
| 6 Apr 1865 |
Moved to Boone NC |
| 27-30 Apr 1865 |
Moved to Asheville NC |
| Aug 1865 |
On duty in North Carolina |
| 16 Aug 1865 |
Mustered out |
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